LATE ENGLISH NEWS. IRELAND. (From the Time's Correspondent.) Dublin, October 29.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 94, 20 March 1847, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS. IRELAND. (From the Time's Correspondent.) Dublin, October 29.

STATE OF THE PROVINCES. A "stop press" of the King's County Chronicle of \esterdd) 1 thus announces a rather formidable outbicak of the populace, and extensive plunder of floi> carts in the neighbourhood of Birr:— ** We stop theprcbs to state that an attack was made on apu aids oflifty loads of flour which left this townUn the morning on its way to Shannon Harbour, tyr shipment to Dublin. On ing to the

state of the country, an cscoit of soldiers and po lice was granted the milleis for its protection ; but this force was foil ml totally insufficient, as the people collected in great multitudes, and seem d determined to have the flour at all hazards. New s having reached the Karl of Kosse to that ellect, he immediately nflbrded reinforcements; and as wo now write the military are marching p'ist. Wo hear that the people have bioken down the bridge at the Ropo-mills in order to render the road impassible ; but w heIher the cats w ere enabled to proceed or not we cannot sa). Jt is staled that the women cut open several of the bags, and succeeded in earn - ing ofl'a considciable quantity. Two entii c bags were taken oil' one of Mr. lister's cars, quite convenient to the town. Time will not pcimit our giving further pni ticulars, but at this moment all is excitement and alarm. '• Wo have just heaid that some cars were stopped on tho road near Cloneen, and three loads of meal taken, which Mr. Darbj, of Leap Castle, had imported for the use of the poor on his estate." A letter from Banaghcr, in the same paper sa\ s, — " lam soiry lo be obliged to stale that matters are assuming a very alarming appearance about this neighbourhood ; scarcely a day since in) last communication that some outrage or another oji piopeit) has not been commuted. The plunder of Messrs. Robinson's flour, at the Rape Mills between here and Parsonstown, was followed up by a similar attack on a number of persons belonging to this town, mostly small dealcis and others, who are icturiiiny IVo » Pdtsonstown with their purchases of flour and oatmeal on Thursday evening last ; the curs were stopped at th^Spit Hill In a huge crowd of neaily 300 persons, composed of men, women, and children, who in a ver\ short time lifled every car of its contents, stati.ig that they were famishing for the want of food, and could not stand it any longer. Although there was a considerable quantity of flour and meal, yet when divided amongst so many, it only all'orded a small portion to each poison. On Fiiday night, the 23rd inst., two sheep the property of Mr. B. Seymour, of (Jlonfcrl, within three miles of this town, were killed on his land, and the carcasses taken away. Mr. Seymour has always been exceedingly kind and obliging to the poor of the neighbourhood, and did not desei ve this treatment. One or two other persons have also lost sheep in the same way. Neail) a fortnight has elapsed since the presentment sessions were held for this barony, and yet strange to say, theic is not the slightest appearance of any w ork being commenced about heieyet. lam told the engineer has not had time even to rcpoit on the works in tais locality : surely such delay, under the circumstances, is highly rcpiehcnsible, and the Board of Works should at once issue the necessary diicctions to their proper officers for this district to have the works proceeded with as soon as possible; the officers cannot do an) thing without orders from the board. A spirit of demoralization is spreading rapid]) amongst the lower ordeis, which, if not checked, must soon obliterate every trace of honest or honorable piinciple they have remaining." The Tipperary Constitution draws a very alarming sketch of allaits in the south riding of that country, as thus:— "The peasantry of Tipperary are armed to tlietcetlij every man has his gun, blunderbuss, or pittol. It is fearful lo contemplate what may be the result, but stuth is the fact. The people do not disguise their possession of fireai ins j they walk about with them in noonday : and it is a common expression amongst the lower classes to say ' Here aie the fowlers,' when they see these desparadoes traversing the country. The Government as we said in our last number, must step foiward — they must disarm the revolutionists of Ireland before it is too late. Ireland requiies, nay demands, a stiingent Arms Act. If strong measures are not taken forthwith this countiy will present a scene of bloodshed and rapine uuparalellcd in the annals of crime. We u^e strong language but the time requires it.— We have information from many sources, and all combine instating that wo are near a dreadful crisis. Then, in God's name, let us endeavour to meet it as w e ought to do. Let the Government leave no stone unturned to avert it ; let them take measures commcnsui ate with the state of the country, and stay the stream of ciime ere it swells into a crimsoned flood. Poverty to be sure, Ims its excuses, but the divine and human laws aie not to be violated to dissipate it. It is not by bloodshed and robbery the condition of the people is to be ameliorated. The people must be taught this. The gentry of Ireland are doing everything for them, even to the actual confiscation of their piopcrties ; but H is of no avail, and will be of no avail, unless the Government come to the rescue of the countiy at once."

THE ANTI-RUSSELL MANIA.

The Rev. Thornns Hardiman, parish priest of Kilmeenn, in the arehidiocese of Tuam, thus concludes an opistle laudatory of his own exertions in mitigating thu poverty of the people : — "At all events, if my poor people be doomed to die of starvation, as in all appearance they are, my hands shall be innocent of their blood. — I shall not venture lo decimate them unless there be at least 800 allowed for Halfparish, and GOO for Kilmeena. And, as the longtlneatened new works are in play, 500 D men a day are as little as can be safely named for work in this district. In fact, 1 could not except five men out of the general roll of distress in Hie whole length and breadth of this parish. Only that I know it is useless to appeal lo 'the powers that be,' l would wain them not to lamely look on any longer whilst thousands are starving unheeded, and 1 believe I may add, unpitied too. But experience proves that our rulers care nothing about us. — ' They have ears to hear and hear not ;' but perhaps our destitution is only imaginaiy, and our hunger merely hypochondriac— all caused by our native indolence in not having pioperly masticated and duly digested the only tonic fit for an Irish stomach j namely, our « illusti ious countrymen'on political economy 1' Sosd)s Sir Kandolph. Oh! give me the great Tor) chief, with all his political sins upon his head, lo grasp the helm at this djeudful crisis with his master hand

and I will then hope that we shall weather the stown. But, 1 confess that my beat t sinks to think that the noblest people on God's eai'lh are at this moment at the mercy of a set of political ju^jileis who seem to have no inercv whatever for them. And rest assured, Sir, mine is no so litai) voice ; I' only give feeble expression to the gcneial dissatisfaction, if not absolute disgust, that is felt at the cruel prociaslinating policy pnisued h) the Whig Government on both sides of the channel. Ai.d I should not be at all surprised if, bcfoic long, a universal cry be raised from end to end of Ireland calling on Sir llobei t Peel to take the reins of pow or into his hands again, and thus save the nation fiom desti uclion. "THOMAS HA ROMAN, " Adininisiralor.'